SHAEF
Britishnoun
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At SHAEF, my father was promoted to lieutenant commander and assigned to G-5, the Financial Division, where he served as chief of the Foreign Exchange and Property Control Section.
From Washington Post
He went into the Army in 1942 as a 2nd lieutenant, emerged three years later a colonel and secretary to the General Staff at SHAEF.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But General Eisenhower's armies had not completely recovered from the plexus punch which Rundstedt had delivered in the Ardennes, despite the rosy statements of Army press-agents at SHAEF.
From Time Magazine Archive
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When Eisenhower was boss of SHAEF, he dubbed Colonel Oreste Pinto "the greatest living authority on security."
From Time Magazine Archive
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SHAEF, the long wartime partnership of U.S. and British armed forces, was dissolving, to be replaced by the joint control plan, wherein each power would govern its own occupation zone in its own way.
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